Research Catalog

Title

Radiohead and philosophy : fitter happier more deductive / edited by Brandon W. Forbes and George A. Reisch.

Publication

Chicago : Open Court, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Forbes, Brandon W.
• Reisch, George A., 1962-

Description

x, 295 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 38

Uniform Title

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 38.

Subjects

• Radiohead (Musical group)
• Music and philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Includes discography: p. 277-281.

Contents

Anyone can play philosophy (yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.). Is Radiohead the Pink Floyd of the twenty-first century? / George A. Reisch ; Radiohead, or the philosophy of pop / Mark Greif ; All the argument we need / John Sylvia ; Radiohead and some questions about music / Edward Slowik -- Art and belief (Show me the world as I'd love to see it). New shades / Jere O'Neill Surber ; Why such sad songs? / Micah Lott ; "The eraser" : start making sense / David Dark -- Radiohead and the music industry (Rainbows and arrows). Taking the sting out of environmental virtue ethics / Daniel Milsky ; We (capitalists) suck young blood / Joseph Tate ; Everybody hates rainbows / D.E. Wittkower -- Radiohead's existential politics (First against the wall). Nietzsche, nihilism and "Hail to the thief" / Devon Lougheed ; The real politics in Radiohead / Jérôme Melançon ; The impossible utopias in "Hail to the thief" / Sean Burt ; Where power ends and violence begins / Brandon W. Forbes ; Evil and politics in "Hail to the thief" / Jason Lee -- Radiohead, Heidegger, and technology (Our iron lungs). The mutilation of voice in "Kid A" (or, my John Mayer problem) / Adam Koehler ; Why a rock band in a desolate time? / Matthew Lampert ; The signature of time in "Pyramid song" / Michael Thompson ; Fitter happier rolling a large rock up a hill / Lindsey Fiorelli -- Radiohead and the postmodern (Not here. Isn't happening). "Kid A" as a musing on the post-modern condition / Bradley Kaye ; Hyperreally saying something / Tim Footman ; Sexier more seductive / Perry Owen Wright.

Call Number

JME 10-223

ISBN

• 9780812696646 (trade paper : alk. paper)
• 0812696646 (trade paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008054658

OCLC

277205535

Title

Radiohead and philosophy : fitter happier more deductive / edited by Brandon W. Forbes and George A. Reisch.

Imprint

Chicago : Open Court, c2009.

Series

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 38

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 38.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes discography: p. 277-281.

Added Author

Forbes, Brandon W.

Reisch, George A., 1962-

Other Form:

Online version: Radiohead and philosophy. Chicago : Open Court, c2009 (OCoLC)639684780

Research Call Number

JME 10-223